By Rinku Sen
The unintentional American vividly illustrates the demanding situations and contradictions of U. S. immigration coverage, and argues that, simply as there's a loose move of capital on the earth financial system, there will be a unfastened circulation of work. writer Rinku Sen alternates chapters telling the tale of 1 "accidental American"--coauthor Fekkak Mamdouh, a Morrocan-born waiter at a cafe on this planet exchange heart whose lifestyles used to be thrown into turmoil on 9/11--with an intensive critique of present immigration coverage. Sen and Mamdouh describe how contributors of the principally immigrant nutrition crew controlled to beat divisions within the aftermath of September 11 and shape the eating place possibilities middle of latest York (ROC-NY) to struggle for jobs and extra equitable remedy. This impressive tale serves to light up the racial, cultural, and monetary conflicts embedded within the present immigration debate and is helping body the argument for a extra humane immigration and international hard work procedure.
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He also saw that many of the people who had all this wealth hadn’t physically earned it themselves—they had inherited it, or they got it from investments—and that some of them were no kinder, smarter, or more creative than he was. This new view of the world gave him a sense not only that he deserved more than a life of penury, but also that the resources for a good LEAVING HOME 31 life were far from scarce. They were just inaccessible to him. Both emigration and service work brought these resources within reach.
Others had come even closer. Two days before the attacks, Siby had given his morning shift to someone who had wanted to drop the Sunday shift because he played in a mariachi band on Saturday nights.
Lucky to never be cheated out of his wages, lucky to never be caught without immigration papers, lucky to marry a woman who herself had a green card, and lucky to be earning more money than many other people in the United States, not to mention Morocco. S. at a moment when people weren’t asking many questions about how he had come to be in the country. Like many immigrants who work in service industries, Mamdouh’s jobs exposed him to a great deal of wealth. Seeing it didn’t make accumulating money his primary concern, but it did show him what kind of lifestyle was possible.
